REID, William Patrick
| Service Number: | V316350 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Coburg, Victoria, Australia, 4 October 1910 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 February 1991, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: | Melbourne Town Hall Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V316350 | |
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| 3 May 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V316350 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Bill was the youngest of five children of Albert Hector Reid Snr (b1879 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Mary Gaughan (b1877 in Melbourne, Victoria). Albert (a Pavior/Pewter Smith) and Mary married in 1900 in Melbourne, Victoria. Apart from a short stint in Bendigo in 1902 the family settled in Melbourne where Albert Snr worked as a Pewter Smith (Pitcher Setter).
Bill was a Junior Foreman when he enlisted in the Militia in 1931 in Melbourne. He was a Private (Service No:45391) attached to 34 Fortress Coy when he was Discharged in 1932. Bill remained in Melbourne where he was working as a Labourer in 1934 when he married Lily May Campbell (b1909 in Gippsland, Victoria) - Lily was working as a Launderess in Melbourne. Bill and Lily settled in Melbourne where Bill was working as a Labourer when he enlisted in the ACMF in March 1942. He was a Private (Service No:V316350) attached to the Medical Corps Detachment when he was Discharged in March 1943.
In the 1960s Bill and Lily moved to Brighton, where Bill worked as a Gardener. Following Lily's death in 1975, Bill remarried in 1981. He died in 1991.